What's going on!

New Assistant Community Manager?

Let them be named...Terwillinger!

That may be the best thing I've ever seen on youtube

Wow, 7deCoeur left? That was a really short tenure.

Yep, he announced it a few weeks ago on the french board. He got offered a job somewhere else, and he took the offer. Now there doesn't seem to be anybody in the OCR that speaks a single french word, and even though most of the announcements are still translated, our WST thread hasn't been updated since december (and that's just an example).

So anyway, it's really not the first time that the french community is left alone, but in the past we've always had Avatea as a "backup" community manager (even when she worked on Tabula Rasa, she was hanging around the french CoX boards). And since they searched for quite some time before finding 7deCoeur, we're really wondering if we'll ever see a french community manager in the future. We have threads discussing the issue on our boards... but who cares?

I see what you did there.

Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

We certainly care.

There's a lot of questions surrounding the lack of a French Community Rep which I aim to answer soon. Your questions and concerns aren't unseen, I'm simply swamped at the moment.

New wilderness zone based around a marsh confirmed for I23.

Thanks a lot for the clarification.

Any chance we could get some concrete information on location soon? Soon of us would need to request time off from work, buy plane tickets, etc ...

Location is 99.9999% certain to be at the Dinah's Garden Hotel again.

Zut alors!

Thanks from here, too. Being one of the game's officially supported languages, you definitely need a French speaker on the OCR team. Even though I don't speak French myself, I'm glad to see that it's being addressed. Hey, War Witch is Canadian, doesn't she know someone?

I think she puts "eh?" at the end of every sentence, so she must be from the wrong part of Canada.

I just called Dinah's Garden, and they don't have a group rate on file yet. I asked if it was under either Paragon Studios or City of Heroes, and they don't have a record of it. You might want to get someone to go ahead and contact the hotel to offer the group rate.

Just to help, though, the regular rate for a single/double room is $109/$119 per night. Back in November, the group rate was $10 off, so that a single/double room was $99/$109 per night. Looking at their reservations site, though, there seems to be a nifty trick to getting an even lower rate. If you book 2+ weeks in advance and you're willing to prepay the room fee, you can get a 15% discount, which works out to $93/$101 for a single/double room.

Also, speaking of double room, if you're going by yourself, I highly encourage you to post a message somewhere here and try to get a roommate. I did it last time (woot, Ninus!), I'm doing it this time (woot, Hyperstrike!), and it's awesome. You get to hang out with someone who loves the game and get to know more than just passingly during the Pummit, your lodging fees are half what they would have been, and even if you hate their guts, it's only for one or two nights, because you'll be busy with other stuff pretty much all day. This is the best deal of all, and not just in terms of money saved.

Oh, and P.S., if you do go with a single room, they also have a "garden deluxe" room that costs the same as a double and is a bit bigger. If you have lots of $$$ to blow, they have some fancy schmancy rooms too, with amenities like a lounge area and such. If you get one of those rooms, call me. We'll hang out.

Also 50% less likely to end up completely locked out of your room, I would imagine.

"There's no Canada like French Canada; it's ze best Canada in ze land!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCox6p5HejY

The problem is that if I go ahead and book it using the method TonyV listed in his response (booking at least two weeks prior and prepaying) since we don't have a group rate code, that 0.0001% chance would happen and the venue would change.

I have my flight and rental car booked, but I refuse to book my hotel until you have a contract and are able to give us a group rate code.

BTW, for anyone looking at rental cars, go through Hotwire. At the last Pummit I had a full-size car from Hertz for $17.95/day and this trip I'll have a full-size car from Alamo for $14.95/day. Looking at the rates I got through either the rental agency, the airline (packaging with my flight and using one of their reward partners) or from other conglomerate travel sites I'm going to be saving between $25.00/day and $35.00/day on the car alone. That's a very good savings over any other method I looked at, including the www.carrentals.com site.

The rates have fluctuated for the past few weeks between $14.95/day and $18.95/day on Hotwire, so just keep checking to see when you get the lower rate. I've seen it change rates several times in the same day.

I'm likely not going to make any commitments on rides this time since I think I got my schedules fouled up last time and missed giving someone a ride that I had committed to.

I've gotten it scheduled so that I'll be arriving just before 11 AM on Friday and I'm not leaving until after 6 PM Sunday evening, so I'll have a bit of extra time Sunday.

I'm already planning a Schaub's run Friday for lunch, and will definitely be doing another Holder's Country Inn run for Bacon Waffles either Saturday or Sunday breakfast. Other than that I'm waiting for Red Gren to find my Friday night Justice dinner venue.

Of course I'm mostly waiting for Zwimamacusernow to give the details for 100% nailed down venue, karaoke information, the Saturday schedule including the Saturday evening meal, etc.

Hopefully, the Saturday evening meal will include a real beef offering instead of the "beef" meal we got last time that had everyone at our table wishing they'd ordered the chicken. Well, Black Pebble may not have wished he'd ordered the chicken, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't what he expected it to be.

Since nobody on my server is driving it seems, i'll just add my Q here.

For what it's worth, I'm not sure if I ever publicly did this, but a HUGE thank you to TJ and to Ninus for shuttling my butt around last November. I didn't rent a car under the theory that I could always just hitch a ride or, worst-case scenario, catch the VTA bus or a taxi to and from anywhere I wanted to go. Thanks to the gracious butt-hauling services provided by TJ and Ninus, I didn't have to catch any busses or taxis.

So yeah... thanks!!!

Heh, funny story. Ninus and I were going to meet you at Holder's Country Inn on Sunday, but I think that we either went to the wrong one or we got there after you all left. As we were pulling up, we saw a lady who, from the back, looked like DJ Angel, with a couple of guys that we didn't immediately recognize, but who looked vaguely familiar as people from the Pummit. So we honked and started waving, they turned around, and they were emphatically NOT who we thought they were.

Of course, by that time, we had sort of committed to it, so I'm sitting there telling Ninus, "Don't stop, just act like we know them. They'll be the ones on the defensive, thinking, 'Who ARE those people?' We can sell this."